{"id":600,"date":"2015-12-22T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=600"},"modified":"2015-12-22T10:52:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:52:23","slug":"windows-10-failed-to-install-error-code-80240020","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/windows-10-failed-to-install-error-code-80240020\/","title":{"rendered":"Error Code 80240020 &#8211; Windows 10 failed to install"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When attempting to install Windows 10 it may fail with Error Code 80240020. \u00a0You may also notice in Windows Update there is a status of &#8220;Failed&#8221; new to Upgrade to Windows 10. \u00a0This error means that the installation files for Windows 10 have been corrupted. \u00a0To resolve this issue you \u00a0will need to delete all the files in the Software Distribution Download folder. \u00a0Here are the steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open Windows Explorer and browse to\u00a0&#8220;C:\\Windows\\SoftwareDistribution\\Download&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Windows-10-Error-Code-80240020.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-601\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-601\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Windows-10-Error-Code-80240020.png\" alt=\"Windows-10-Error-Code-80240020\" width=\"765\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Delete All the files found in the Download folder<\/li>\n<li>Open a Command Prompt as an administrator and type in the following:<br \/>\n<code>wuauclt.exe \/updatenow<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Open Windows Update in the Control Panel and Windows 10 should start downloading again<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When attempting to install Windows 10 it may fail with Error Code 80240020. \u00a0You may also notice in Windows Update there is a status of &#8220;Failed&#8221; new to Upgrade to Windows 10. \u00a0This error means that the installation files for Windows 10 have been corrupted. \u00a0To resolve this issue you \u00a0will need to delete all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[452],"article-tag":[477,478,479],"class_list":["post-600","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-10","article-tag-error-code-80240020","article-tag-windows-10-failed-to-install","article-tag-windows-update-installation-failure-80240020"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":2,"sum_votes":8},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}